Getting Schooled
Head of
the class...
Garrett
Daniels has this whole life thing figured out.
The
cocky, charismatic former high school star quarterback is an idolized football
coach and "cool" teacher in the hometown where he's not just a golden
boy — he's platinum. He has good friends, a great house on the lake, and the
best damn sidekick a man could ask for: Snoopy, the albino beagle.
Then...Callie
Carpenter comes home.
And
knocks him right on his tight end zone.
Back to
school...
Callie has
a pretty sweet life herself...on the other side of the country. But
circumstances — that she'd prefer to never speak of again — have brought her
back home, helping out her parents and substitute teaching at her old high
school.
Now
she's facing bickering, raging hormones, constant gossip, awkward weirdness,
and drama galore...and that's just the teachers.
Just
like old times...
When
Garrett offers to show his former high school sweetheart the secrets of his
winning teacher ways, Callie jumps at the chance - and then has to stop herself
from jumping him.
Good
friends are all they can ever be.
Or...these
teachers just might end up getting schooled — hard — by love.
Includes a special bonus interview with the author!
©2018 Emma Chase (P)2018 Audible Originals, LLC.
Excerpt
High
school parking lots are one of the most dangerous places on earth. I don’t have
statistics to back that up…but I know it’s true.
I pull
into the school parking lot Monday morning in my Dad’s giant, newly repaired
mint-green Buick, with Back in Black
by AC/DC blasting from the speakers. I feel tough, powerful—like I’m driving a
tank.
I’m a
badass teacher—I’ll run you down even if you’re a student—I’ve got twenty-nine
more in class just like you.
The
outfit helps too—leather boots, blue jeans, a starched white blouse and a black
leather jacket. It’s my armor. The morning air is cool and crisp today, but I
barely feel it. I’m locked and loaded and ready to roll.
As I
march towards the main entrance, I spot Garrett and Dean and Alison Bellinger
outside the doors. They pause when they see me, waiting.
“Damn,”
Dean chuckles. “Callie’s got her shit-kickers on. Did you dig them out of a
mosh pit from 1993?”
Garrett
crosses his arms. “Somebody’s channeling Michelle Pfiefer in Dangerous Minds.”
He
looks fantastic. His hair is tousled from the breeze and kisses his brow, and
he’s wearing a dark blue sweater that’s snug around his biceps and soft, worn,
light blue jeans. I remember his arms around me yesterday on my parent’s porch.
The wonder and exhilaration of the moment.
Of him.
The
intensity in his eyes, the desire and possessiveness in the grasp of his hands.
The scorching feel of his mouth, his wet talented tongue that made my stomach
swirl and my head spin.
So much
for not complicating things.
But I’m
not going to play head games with myself or Garrett—we’re too old for that
shit.
I have
feelings for him—I always have—our break-up had nothing to do with either of us
not wanting each other desperately. But these aren’t just leftover echoes of a
sweet, first love—this is something new. A throbbing, breathless attraction to
the amazing man he’s become. I want to be near him. I want to know him, inside
and out, all over again.
And he
feels the same way. Garrett wants this version of me as much as he always did—maybe
even more. I heard it in his whispered words and felt it in his kiss.
I don’t
know if we have a future, if it can go anywhere. We have separate lives on
opposite ends of the country. But I’m not going to worry about that—for now,
I’m going to take each day as it comes and enjoy every moment we can.
Except
for now. Now is not the time for enjoying or worrying or relationship
building…now is the time for focusing. Now is the time to be ice and
steel—don’t smile, don’t waver.
“Little
fucknutters don’t know who the hell they’re dealing with,” I growl.
Allison
pumps her fist. “That’s the spirit.”
Garrett
opens the door for me. “Go get ‘em, Gangster’s
Paradise.”
About the Author
Emma Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the hot and hilarious Tangled series and The Legal Briefs series. Emma lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and two naughty (but really cute) dogs. She has a long-standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.
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